The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1887-07-13
COME INTO CAMP!
A Letter to the Farmers of the State from
Colonel Duncan.

COlOnel duncan.
BY invitation the summer meeting OF
the society will convene upon the grounds
Of the Interstate farmers summer en-
campment to be held at Spartanburg,
S. c., the first week in August next.
The society will hold its business meet
ing on Wednesday, the Sd. Theregular
programme Of essays and discussions by
the society will take place on Thursday,
the 9Th, this day being assigned by the
arranging committee as ihe State Agrl-
cultural and Mechanical Society Day.
As YOU are aware, it has been our GUS
tom to have representation OF three
delegates from each county. While We
wish TO urge upon the members to see
to it that each county sends delegation
at the same time we cali your attention
to the fact that this is a meeting OF the
society, and al members are entitled TO
be present, and we hope as many will
attend as possible.
This Interstate farmers summer en-
canlpment meeting has been so thor
oughly advertised that it is unnecessary
to say more than to urge as many as
possible to be present. It will be the
largest concourse of farmers proper that
has ever assembled for the purpose for
which this meeting IS organized; it will
be sraught with various matters OF ma
tcxial interest to all farmers, and it is
eminenSly proper, e not absolutely nee
essary, that your society be fully repre-
sented, it being the only "simon pure"
agricultural organization in the State
tha: has for its object the discussion and
development of purely agricultural sub
iects, and Of matters that apply to the
farmers everyday life.
It is true We have the order Of the
Patrons of Husbandry, under whose
auspices this farmers Interstate en-
canlpment is to be held. The Oranges
have their social and educational fea-
lures, which ca1ry along with it its lady
membership, and while we individually
think it the best and most perfect or
ganization in all its equipments the farm
er has ever had, yet it has failed to keep
its hold on the rank and file Of our
tanners.
Then We have the farmers movement
organization, which has developed into
an organization whose prime object is to
look after and protect the farmers po-
itical rights, to watch over and see that
such legislation as is necessary for his
interest be secured, and to take charge
OF al matters of like character, which
al will readily acknowledge to be pre-
emipently proper. But never before in
the history Of our agricultural interest
has there been more need of vitaGzing
current than at this time. Farmers are
day by day being aroused to the fact
that they, too, must be progressive.
This is the age of less acres and a greater
product from them. improvements in
implements, in cultivation, in seeds, and
in all kinds of farm equipments; and
where will the farmers looking for this
vitalizing current if not in the State Ag-
ricultural and Mechanical Society?
For the past twenty years, since your
reorganization after the war, your So
ciety has been doing good work, both
II the discussion of agricultural subjects
at our summer meetings, as well ss by
general display of things appertaining to
our calling at our annual State fairs, and
it VIII be only natural, after all spas
moGic efforts are expended, for our
farmers to turn @ your society to IN
quire what is the news from the agricul-
tural watch tower. Therefore We would
again urge you to be present at the
Spartanburg meeting. Let the members
il each county hold meeting on sales
day in July, and if not more than a
delegation of three can attend, let them
decide upon those and forward the name
to Thomas ". Holloway, Pomaria, S.
G. We have been in the habit of max
ing special rates of transportation for
delegates to our summer meetings, but
this is one at which there will be so large
an attendance outside Of the society that
We are using our efforts to set unusually
low rates for all, which will be announc-
ed at an early day.
D. 2. DUNCAN, President.
Union, June p, 1887.